Community Question: Should GM Build A Hybrid Crossover In Response To The Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid?

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Fiat-Chrysler introduced a very important new product during the 2016 North American International Auto Show. The 2017 Chrysler Pacifica ditches the Town & Country nameplate, and adds a hybrid model with an estimated 80 MPGe, the industry’s first hybrid minivan.

Although we don’t expect General Motors to rejoin the minivan segment any time soon, today’s community question is in response to the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica minivan: should GM build a hybrid crossover to match FCA?

It doesn’t seem far fetched for Chevrolet to offer up a hybrid variant of Equinox or Traverse to take on the 2017 Pacifica and its 80 MPGe estimation. But, we’ve heard no plans of such a vehicle coming to life thus far. We suppose anything is possible with an all-new 2017 Equinox and Traverse coming soon, however.

A removable roof mounted or hitch mounted ‘range extender’ option or a Long wheelbase Bolt body with a Volt set-up might keep the regulators happy while the rest of us drive Suburbans.. I’m waiting on a 500 mile range Suburban EV myself

The Pacifica and Highlander are not minivans. They are larger SUV (CUV). I own both!
Toyota and Chrysler have plenty of real minivans to point at.
They all would do well to have a real hybrid version of the minivan and the SUVs too.
Don’t know why Chrysler screwed things up and now name the new minivan after a Pacifica.
New marketing guy that has no clue of the difference?

Chrysler’s Pacifica Hybria proves that FCA Chairman, Sergio Marchionne, is a liar as Marchionne said that it was necessary for FCA to merge with General Motors to acquire hybrid technology and yet.. the very fact Chrysler is ready to bring the Pacifica to production means that FCA had been developing hybrid technology for years especially given the system the Pacifica is using isn’t a first generation mild-hybrid as this is a hard-core system similar to the system General Motors will be introducing in Cadillac’s CT6 to allow a large vehicle run for extended periods on battery which greatly increases overall mileage efficiency.

General Motors needs to consider a hybrid variant of almost every vehicle it builds especially GM’s CUV, SUV and even their trucks as imagine marketing a Chevy Silverado or Suburban with mileage near 40mpg due to the usage of a hybrid module found in Cadillac’s CT6.